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21 January 2014

Estero wheat & two siamese seed drills

In the farm, where we have sowed our garlic this campaing, our friend Sergio Castillo ​works. ​After sowing our garlic, we spent a morning with him... it was very funny and we could see their machinary.

He was sowing R1 estero wheat. ​The w​hole production is going to be ​used as seed​ for ​the next year. The field, where he sowed this wheat, has a water system (they have ​this system on all fields of this farm), so they hope to have a yield of 8,000kg/ha. He used a dose of seed of 300kg/ha (we used 210kg/ha for our rainfed fields). We would like to take a video and pictures to publish a post when he is going to harvest it with their new Fendt combine.

We​ really​ liked ​their​ two siamese Solano-Horizonte seed drills (they are linked by a homemade gadget... the working width is of 7m (it is a way ​of having a cheap large seed drill). The problem of this gadget ​appears ​when they need to transport it, s​ince​ they have to put it on a trailer, but as they work in ​only one​ farm, they ​avoid traffic ​problems ​into the farm, so th​e​ problem ​doesn't exist. Also we liked so much ​the ​John Deere 7430 Premium... ​his engine ​sound is spectacular. Sergio told us they normally don't sow with this tractor (it is too large) because he spends too much time ​o​n headers, but he doesn't have ​an​other this year. On the other hand, the working speed was high (over 10km/h using B3 gear), ​then he could sow an important number of hectares using a sort time.